Before the UN, Nicolas Sarkozy revived the idea of a tax on financial flows
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Sarkozy has announced that France would grant over the next three years 180 million additional euros to the Global Fund to fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Which, translated the director of the Fund, Michel Kazatchkine, will buy 12 million nets per year 600 000 or treat AIDS.
While welcoming this announcement, the non-governmental organization Oxfam took the liberty of adding that "France has taught us to be wary of generous announcements". "What President Sarkozy does not specify is that half of this amount pledged to the Global Fund can be counted in the G8 initiative in favor of maternal and child health announced in June," said Sébastien Fourmy, d 'Oxfam-France. By increasing its contribution to the Global Fund, France, with the same funds, pays part of its G8 bill, and recycles its announcements without saying so. " "We do not have the right to take refuge behind the economic crisis to do less," said the head of state, urging all industrialized countries to follow France's example.
INCIDENTAL SPEECHES
Nicolas Sarkozy has also delivered a new plea for a tax on financial transactions to meet the MDG financing needs and is committed to defend the idea during his presidency G20, starting in November and the G8, from January 2011. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, aussidéclaré favor of this tax, still controversial even if it is mentioned in the draft final declaration of the summit.
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